TAKING DECISIONS UNDER PRESSURE

·         Situations where decision maker has very little time to plan like life threatening situations people resort to “Reactive Decision Making”

·         Following under mentioned rules or thumb tips can minimize mistakes and make coherent choices.

1.       Prioritize

·         People under pressure focus on the principal outline of the problem while those not under pressure use in depth evaluations.

·         The stressed people prioritize better than the unstressed counter parts.

·         Prioritization plays a very important role in making decision under pressure.

2.       Dynamic Solutions

·         Where one cannot predict what will happen next, good decision makers choose the option which give them most flexibility even though it may not necessarily be the best option

·         Always operate with the worst case scenario

3.       Communication Angle

·         How do you communicate with your team and others under pressure have a profound impact on their reaction

·         Maintain a calm and confident bearing.

·         People on field exhibit greater understanding of the situation. Take those people in confidence.

·         Direct communication facilities better decisions.

·         Training, simulation and experience are important tools helping in split second decisions under stress.

·         People conditioned to make decisions much faster and better decisions than otherwise.

4.       Gut Festinates

·         Experienced decision makers exhibit better gut instinct

·         They develop “recognition primed decisions making skills subconscious strategies” that heaps them to instantly identify familiar patterns in situations and intuitively take the right decisions.